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[Lonest@r]

Ironically... Cops find 400 'guns' for sale at CVS store

http://www.ravnwood.com/archives/004501.php

 

[TwitchALot]

When is a child old enough to use a gun responsibly?

Never, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. This is what the distinguished organization has to say about children and guns: Never allow your child access to your gun(s). No matter how much instruction you may give him or her, a youngster in the middle years is not mature and responsible enough to handle a potentially lethal weapon. Certainly the recent wave of school massacres give ample evidence of that.

If you still want your child to know how to hunt or shoot, wait until the teenage years to begin instruction. Your child may be intelligent and emotionally mature, and he may know the book on gun safety, but you simply can't trust him with a hunting rifle until he's at least 13 years old -- and not even then unless you are absolutely certain he is mature enough to be responsible. (Don't give your child a BB gun as a toy -- writer Alice Walker is among the many Americans who have lost an eye to a sibling's BB gun.) If you decide to let him use a gun, make it a rule that he must be accompanied by an adult.

-- Chris Woolston, M.S., is a health and medical writer with a master's degree in biology. He is a contributing editor at Consumer Health Interactive, and was the staff writer at Hippocrates, a magazine for physicians. He has covered science issues for Time Inc. Health and WebMD, and is the co-author of Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children from the Epidemic of Obesity (Perseus Books, 2005).. His reporting on occupational health earned him an award from the northern California Society of Professional Journalists.

Why people go to Hollywood and the AAP for gun advice is mind boggling.

Right back at you Mr. Woolston. And, if anyone is interested, here's the icing.

 

[taprackbang]

The CVS article is typical bullcrap, big brother propaganda. (Children leave the house and tell an adult about the gun!)
I esp. love the part about, "Guns are only safe when they are unloaded, locked in a safe, and put away"
In other words, they want your gun to be useless.

I have always hated CVS anyway, this just confirms my dislike for them. I am a Walgreen-er.

 

[bdickens]

Walgreens has no such propaganda posted.

 

[ilbob]

I agree with at least part of their message. Younger children should not be given unsupervised access to firearms.

 

[bdickens]

Even a watch that has stopped tells the right time twice a day.

 

[Rifleman 173]

So also follow up the OTHER way and notify Walgreens as to why you dumped CVS Pharmacies for their services. In other words, also point out that by NOT being anti-gun nuts they GET your business. Make being anti-gun in the business world a bad thing and pro-gun a good thing.

 

[ccsniper]

A gun means it's time to go. If your child sees a gun at a neighbor's house or elsewhere, he should leave immediately and tell you or another adult about it. (It's not enough to tell your child never to touch a gun. If his friend is handling a gun, your child is in grave danger.)

that i agree with. i was raised on eddie eagle safety videos. although i do think its funny they mention, "if you keep a gun in the home, you will more likely kill yourself or someone you know than a bad guy" but they dont mention "if dont keep a gun in your home, the bad guy is more likely to kill you!"

 

[Lonest@r]

A gun means it's time to go. If your child sees a gun at a neighbor's house or elsewhere, he should leave immediately and tell you or another adult about it.

that i agree with.

NOt quite, if being played with or used inappropriately, YES. If simply sitting harmless in a closet or drawer, NO. All we need is a bunch of emotional anti parents calling LE pointing out all the responsible gun owners, menawhile not only causing their child to possibly 'fear' guns, but also possibly to peak their curiosity.

Don't you know, never tell a child NO, not because you shouldn't, but because that is the first thing the WILL do. Teach them responsibility and ability to make rational decisions.

 

[Crimp]

I opted to email CVS comments to their web site.
It only took 3 minutes to get a response!

Dear Valued CVS.com Customer,

Thank you for contacting CVS.com.

After reviewing your comments, we have forwarded them to the appropriate group at CVS for consideration.

If you require further assistance, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by phone at (888) 607-4287.

As always, thank you for choosing CVS.com.


Sincerely,
Derek Dubois
Customer Care Department
www.CVS.com
(888) 607-4CVS (4287)
[email protected]

 

[David904]

It was an automated response. Nobody read your email that quickly. I called Corporate CVS and spoke with a woman who was purportedly shocked by what I had to tell her. She said that she and her family had guns as well and that the article that was posted on their website was completely out of line.

She said that she was going to forward this information up the chain. We'll see what that bring us.

CVS Corporate: 866-222-9438

 

[ccsniper]

Don't you know, never tell a child NO, not because you shouldn't, but because that is the first thing the WILL do. Teach them responsibility and ability to make rational decisions

im 19, and that is just how i was raised. my dad started me on guns in the second grade, but i knew not to touch them and NEVER play with them when i wasnt even able to hold them yet.

 

[caseypj]

Email sent.

 

[wbrown609]

Skip CVS, Wal Mart, and Walgreens. Go to your local independent drug store.

 

[doc540]

call made to customer service

don't know that she'll do anything, but she did a great job at handling the call

 

[conw]

http://www.csicop.org/healthyskeptic/

Pic of Woolston there.

Google search showed he has also written for United Nation-related publications...in-ter-esting.

I like the idea about telling Walgreens why we (I) will give them business, in addition to complaining!

In fact, I think I'll go there now

 

[SHusky57]

Just something of a side note. I did gun sales at an outdoors store and nothing bothered me more (other than some absolute morons) than when parents would want to buy a gun.... not tell their kids it's in the house, not teach their kids safety rules, and just assume that their kids would never find it.

I know a lot of people who grew up around guns, learned safety early on, and never had any problems. It just frightens me that a parent would want to shelter their kids from guns to the point of not even taking them out shooting and showing them how dangerous they are, and then teaching safe handling. If your only defense against your kid shooting himself is "I hid it" and "they didn't know there was one in the house" that's just not really a defense. Kids need to learn safety, not irrational fear and paranoia. This applies to guns, alcohol, sex, and every other controversial topic. Obviously it should be age appropriate, but how many "accidental" deaths could be prevented if some idiot taught there kid "treat all guns as loaded", "even with the magazine removed there is a round in the chamber", and "do not point at anything you do not want to shoot at."

Anyways, one quick story. A family of morons bought a Rossi revolver for home protection. Idiot dad was wearing a highway patrol hat. He was obviously not a trooper judging by his gut. Mom wanted to become a cop. At checkout, dad opens the box to see if a trigger lock will fit on said revolver. In doing so he a) does not open the cylinder to verify unloaded, b) points the gun at his kids head while trying to put on the trigger lock and c) when I interject and tell him he should always open the cylinder to verify that it is unloaded he responds, "well [dur da dur] we knew it was unloaded." And if the gun is for home protection, what good is one of those damn trigger locks going to do that takes 15 minutes to get off? Oh well.... I just hope he doesn't point loaded (it's loaded until it's verified unloaded IMO) weapons at his kids heads while fumbling with the trigger mechanism.

 

[brin747]

Very well said Shushky! When I made the decision to purchase guns and learn to use them I decided we would do it as a family. My wife and I went first and took a private class at a local range with an NRA certified instructor, then I took my boys in for a class with the same guy.

We constantly talk safety and the rules of safety, and we practice together while all watching each other for unsafe practices.

It just makes good sense...

 

[kludge]

My e-mail:

Subject: Pharmacy Choice

Dear CVS,

Thank you for making my choice in pharmacy much simpler. I will no longer be shopping at any of your stores. I also have a wife and five children who will no longer be using your pharmacy or the MinuteClinic.

Why you ask?

http://www.cvshealthresources.com/topic/kidsguns

As a firearms instructor who teaches kids, youth, and adults about gun safety, your web page is only thinly veiled anti-gun propaganda intended to strike fear into the unknowing, rather than giving those people respect and learning (like all forms of bigotry and prejudice).

I will also be contacting friends and family to ask them to also boycott CVS. Since I am the president of a gun club, this could be well over two hundred people, plus their families. And I'm sure they know people too.

Thank you for you time,
Kludge

 

[ultradoc]

Did my part!!

 

[AllAmerican]

I wrote to them yesterday and got a standard reply. Walgreens simply says store ammo away from the guns.

 

[donaldb]

Looks like out letters did some good, if you go to the site the pages is missing now.

 

[CentralTexas]

Congrats

To the High Road crew!

 

[DutchmanDick]

Well, there's no CVS pharmacy anywhere near me, but I cartainly wouldn't shop there if there was one!

When I was 3, my parents used to take me to the rifle range near Alameda Naval Base, CA (where my dad was stationed, aboard the USS "Hancock", CVA-19), when they went plinking. Had my own set of "Mickey-Mouse ears" to protect my young ears (still have 'em, too!).

My dad started teaching me gun safety and shooting properly when I was about 7 or 8 years old, starting with an old lever-action Daisy BB gun, shooting down our long hallway into a cardboard box packed with old newspapers.

My first gun capable of firing a truly lethal projectile was the .45 caliber CVA " English Belt Pistol" one of my uncles gave me for Christmas (along with a pound of Goex FFFg and some lead balls) when I was 9. Probably the coolest gift a 9-year-old could get, IMHO

My grandfather (on my father's side) gave me a 16-gauge Stevens ("Ranger") Model 520A and a Ward' "Western Field" 20-gauge pump when I was 12. I used the 16-gauge with slugs the first time I ever went deer hunting, at age 15 (didn't get anything, though - but that's because I didn't SEE anything to shoot!)

When I was 13, I built a .32 caliber CVA squirrel rifle from a kit, with only a little help from Dad. I paid for half of it from my allowance, and my parents paid for the other half.

When I was 16, my parents told me that if I wanted a Ruger 10-22, I again had to come up with half of the money - which I did.

When I was 17, I bought a $99.00 Spiller and Burr .36 caliber brass-framed revolver kit from Dixie Gunworks. Actually, I gave the money to my mom, who then filled out the order, as Dixie would not sell guns or kits to anyone under 18 years of age. My chemistry teacher even gave me some saltpeter from the lab supplies to make nitrated paper for revolver cartridges (didn't work too well, as in ignorance I had used too heavy a thickness of paper - now I know better...)

Funny, I never did turn into a crazed psychopath, massacre my classmates and teachers, or shoot a friend, family member, acquaintance, or even a total stranger, accidentally or otherwise...

 

[TooTaxed]

I just tried to find the CVS link to "kidsnguns" provided in the initial EMAIL...they seem to have pulled it.

Good work, fellows!